In the last ten years of owning two different brand winches I have used them collectively 11 times. If you do the math that is 1.1 times a year, not a lot huh? Either I am lame and take the super easy trails and bypasses or I am just that good not to get myself stuck. What is funny though, I only used it on myself once.
So it sucker punched me when my current winch remote failed on me with such little use. My wonderfully reliable Mile Marker 9500si came with a remote that was made of a soft rubber material and looked like it could be really abused……….WRONG!
Here is what Mile Marker’s Remote looks like. (Excuse the crappy pics, my 7 seven month old Kodak is out for repair, and that is another article.)
In the last three years I have used this Mile Marker in some tough spots and it has worked flawlessly each until the end of the last pull. I was re-spooling the line when it cut out on me for a brief second and I had to press the remote a little harder.
